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Objecting to company names

Submitted by voluntarynews on 10 October 2008
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Under a provision of the Companies Act 2006 in force from 1st October, there is a new adjudicator (at the UK Intellectual Property Office's Company Names Tribunal) who can decide whether a proposed company name is too similar to someone else's trading name. This now doesn't depend on the organisation/business having a registered company name matching the trading name.

See Out-law.com news item at http://www.out-law.com/page-9455 (or Sandy Adirondack's legal update at http://www.sandy-a.co.uk/managing.htm#nameobjection).